Quick first impressions: – The calls for an Al moratorium/ or attempts to put on the breaks by regulators – I don’t think will actually make much of a difference to the pace of this technological revolution in the end.
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Generative AI Litigation Set to Drive Legal Precedents
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– Lawyers! You’re going to be busy. The #generativeAI litigation is just beginning and will drag on for years. Some important precedents will be set though.
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Personal Hardware Devices Monitoring Human Vitality Status
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Are they suggesting we all have our own individual hardware device constantly monitoring if we’re alive?
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Authenticating Humans Against Autonomous Agents Infiltration
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Now that some people are building autonomous agents to infiltrate our lives (who?), perhaps we need a way to authenticate humans. How do we feel about this approach?
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Nuclear countries risk exchange to limit AI training runs
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Not joking. And this gem: "allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs."
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ChatGPT plugins and extreme AI safety proposals dominate week
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This week began with ChatGPT plugins and ended with @TIME publishing a call to bomb data centers from the air.
Totally normal times, have a great weekend everyone https://
time.com/6266923/ai-eli
ezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
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Existential Risk Comparison: AI Against Historical Threats
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But aren't there already other cases of a 0.01% risk of human extinction, and somehow we are still here? For example, significant political changes, climate change, nuclear weapons, genetically modified food, a new medicine that wasn't tested for the entire human lifespan, the
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OpenAI Halts ChatGPT Service in Italy Over Privacy Regulations
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We of course defer to the Italian government and have ceased offering ChatGPT in Italy (though we think we are following all privacy laws). Italy is one of my favorite countries and I look forward to visiting again soon!
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OpenAI should release alignment datasets and democratic governance
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one thing coming up in the debate about the pause letter i really agree with: openai should make a great alignment dataset and alignment evals and release those! bonus points if we can find a prototype democratic process for 'what we align to'.
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Center for AI and Digital Policy Files Complaint Against OpenAI at FTC
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Oh I think OpenAI will have to cooperate because yesterday the Center for AI and Digital Policy filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission to have them sue OpenAI https://caidp.org